[Skywarn] Re: Tornado Free String

[Lloyd Colston]

skywarn-request@mailman.qth.net wrote:



> I browsed around the website whose URL* you provided, 
> http://www.geocities.com/mccem , but was unable to find the article 
> within.  I can't help wonder what's its source.

and you won't.  The URL "provided" was in my signature box, clearly 
separated from the article.


> 
> 1) Provide the entire URL that goes directly to the article, instead of 
> just the homepage of the website where the article is contained.  It's 

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/ok/public.html

The problem with providing URLs from NOAA is that the information 
changes frequently.  If you don't get the info when it's there, in a day 
or two, it's gone.  It was there this morning still.

> 
> 2) If the information was received in an email, provide the source as 
> best you can.  ("I got an email from the local NWS, and it says...")  

I'll try to do better next time.  However, please realize that I am 
quite busy and not always able to remember everything that everyone 
wants me to do.

> 
> 3) If this was original research, then take the credit: "I've been 
> keeping records of the data, and I just found..."

I take credit for personal work.  Regularly and often, I do.  However, 
this is not personal work.  In fact, it's public domain information 
provided by your Taxpayers At Work.		:)

> 
> My last attempt was to google the exact phrase "RECORD NUMBER OF DAYS 
> WITHOUT A TORNADO IN OKLAHOMA," but no results were returned.

I am surprised that you did not go to the News section of Google.  Many 
of the media in OK picked it up.

http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=1163018&TP=getweather

> 
> Regardless, everything I read on the Skywarn list _must_ be true 
> (including Nuclear Bombs Kill Tornados), so I'm sure the longest-string 
> statistic is accurate.  I hope Oklahoma makes it past "1000 Days."

If I were some sort of mad scientist who did not grace you with the 
revelation of his true identity, I'd see why you were skeptical. 
However, I have identified myself as an emergency manager.  The web site 
you visited would support that identity.  Therefore, my credibility 
should have risen at least a little.		:)

I doubt that we will make it 1K days.  Tornado season has come to OK as 
early as March.  In fact, there is only one month in this County when 
there has not been a tornado recorded.  You'll have to trust me for that 
bit of data.  If you want to do your own research, NOAA has the data. 
The MONTH is February and that is the month we do our storm spotter 
training.		:)


> 
> Unfortunately, since I cannot verify the article's accuracy, I cannot 
> see my way clear to passing the information to anybody else.

And no one is asking you to do anything with the information.

Like Fox, I report; you decide.

Let me know how more I can help.


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Lloyd Colston		Mayes County CEM
Pryor, OK USA		http://www.geocities.com/mccem
    	Homeland Security begins at Home.